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Plane Trigonometry and Numerical Computation

Index

Abscissa,
6.
Absolute value,
of a directed quantity, 7.
Addition,
of angles, 9; formulas in trigonometry, 95.
Angle,
definition of, 7; directed, 7; measurement of, 8; addition and subtraction of, 9; functions of, 2; of elevation and depression, 16; of triangle, 48; in artillery service, 76.
Annuities,
70.
Arc of a circle,
76.
Artillery service,
use of angles in, 76.
Axes,
of coördinates, 5.
 
Briggian
logarithms, 54.
 
Characteristic
of a logarithm, 54.
Cologarithms,
59.
Common logarithms,
54.
Compass,
Mariner’s, 29.
Computation,
numerical, 18, 24; logarithmic, 61 ff.
Coördinates
in a plane, 5.
Cosecant,
32.
Cosine,
definition of, 12; variation of, 81; graph of, 82; law of --s, 40.
Cotangent,
definition of, 32.
Course,
29.
Coversed sine,
32.
 
Dead reckoning,
30.
Departure,
29.
Difference
in latitude, 29; in longitude, 30.
Directed,
angles, 7; quantities, 6; segments, 7.
Distance,
29.
 
Elements of a triangle,
1.
 
Function,
definition of, 3; representation of, 32; trigonometric, 12 ff., 58.
 
Graph
of trigonometric functions, 80, 82, 83.
 
Haversine,
definition of, 32; solution of triangles by, 48; tables of, 117—9;
 
Identities,
trigonometric, 35.
Initial position,
7.
Interest,
70.
Interpolation,
22.
 
Knot,
29.
 
Latitude,
difference in, 29; middle, 30.
Law,
of sines, 40; cosines, 40; of tangents, 47.
Logarithm,
definition of, 52; invention of, 50; laws of, 53; systems of, 54; characteristic and mantissa of, 54; use of tables of, 56; tables of, 110—16.
Logarithmic
scale, 73.
 
Magnitude,
6.
Mantissa,
54.
Mariner’s
compass, 29.
Middle
latitude, 30.
Mil,
76.
 
Napier, J.,
50.
Nautical
mile, 29.
Navigation,
28 ff.
Negative angle,
definition of, 7; functions of, 85.
 
Ordinate,
6.

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